'Understanding Occupy Seattle': The Podcast

Four panelists, including an Occupy Seattle Media Working Group member, took part in Crosscut's forum, now available as a podcast.

Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Jun 28, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>'Understanding Occupy Seattle': The Podcast</h1>
                <h2><p>Four panelists, including an Occupy Seattle Media Working Group member, took part in Crosscut's forum, now available as a podcast.</p></h2>
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            <p>Four panelists, including an Occupy Seattle Media Working Group member, took part in Crosscut's forum, now available as a podcast.</p><p>Four panelists mixed inside knowledge of Occupy Seattle with outside observation to explore the movement's local and national implications Thursday night at a Crosscut forum. Some 75 people attended "Understanding Occupy Seattle," held at the Bertha Knight Landes Room at Seattle City Hall, under the sponsorship of City Councilmember Mike O'Brien.</p><p>The panelists included independent   journalist and Occupy Seattle Media Working Group member Mark  Taylor-Canfield; <em>Yes! Magazine</em> Executive Editor Sarah van Gelder; Hanson Hosein, director of the UW  Master of  Communication in Digital Media program; and Crosscut contributing writer Jordan Royer. Crosscut Associate Editor Berit Anderson served as moderator.</p><p><strong>Click on the audio player above or <a href="http://crosscut.com/static/static_file/2011/10/28/Crosscut_Forum_Oct_27_COMPLETE.mp3?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">here to listen</a>.</strong></p><p><strong>Watch the Seattle Channel's <a href="http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=5211161&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">coverage of the panel. </a></strong><br></p><p><br><em>Post-production by Feliks Banel. </em><br></p>
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Four panelists, including an Occupy Seattle Media Working Group member, took part in Crosscut's forum, now available as a podcast.

Four panelists mixed inside knowledge of Occupy Seattle with outside observation to explore the movement's local and national implications Thursday night at a Crosscut forum. Some 75 people attended "Understanding Occupy Seattle," held at the Bertha Knight Landes Room at Seattle City Hall, under the sponsorship of City Councilmember Mike O'Brien.

The panelists included independent journalist and Occupy Seattle Media Working Group member Mark Taylor-Canfield; Yes! Magazine Executive Editor Sarah van Gelder; Hanson Hosein, director of the UW Master of Communication in Digital Media program; and Crosscut contributing writer Jordan Royer. Crosscut Associate Editor Berit Anderson served as moderator.

Click on the audio player above or here to listen.

Watch the Seattle Channel's coverage of the panel.

Post-production by Feliks Banel.

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By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi